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Body goes missing at Maamba Hospital Mortuary

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The body of the Sinazongwe Council employee who died on Tuesday after inhaling chemicals has gone missing at the Maamba Hospital Mortuary in Southern province.

Maamba Hospital acting Superintendent Dr Elisha Chipandwe confirmed the development and said the hospital was trying to establish the facts over the matter.

Dr. Chipandwe said two bodies were brought to the Hospital mortuary on Tuesday and they suspect that one family that buried their deceased early could have picked a wrong body.

He said the hospital would call the family that buried their body early to identify the remaining body in the mortuary to identify their owners.

“The family that came in the morning to claim for the body of their deceased caught us unaware and we suspect the first family buried a wrong body we are trying to establish the fact and find the body,” Dr. Chipandwe said.

Sinazongwe Council Director of Works Mathews Mashapi identified the deceased as Mailos Siakambila who was a council employee based at Sinazeze barrier.

Mr. Mashapi said the deceased died on Tuesday at home after accidentally inhaling the chemicals he was using to spray his cotton field.

He said the people at his home decided to give him milk and when he slept he died.

The Director of works explained that his body was taken to Maamba Hospital Mortuary but when mourner went to retrieve it they failed to find it.

The mourners reported the matter to Maamba police while carrying their empty coffin.
[ZANIS]

14 COMMENTS

  1. If its true the family that cme earlier got the wrong body, couldn’t any of the mourners notice during body viewing? This is indeed a strange case. I hope LT will keep us informed concerning this case. I’m interested to know how it will be concluded.

  2. Lets hope the gentleman is alive (resurrected). He might be somewhere trying to find strategy of reintroducing himself back to society. It has happened before, poisoning is not like shooting somebody. Very possible to recover… Do we have medical doctor here to analysis the probability?

  3. What kind of chemicals did this corpse inhale?? Some chemicals can cause involuntary muscle movements even after death, it’s a remote possibility that the muscle contractions cuased the body to run out of there. The other possibility is that Legal Expert who works as a Malukula ran out of t-bone steak to braai and decided human flesh would be a better option.

  4. OH LAWD HAVE MERCY!!!!!…AND U SAY ZAMBIA IS DOING GOOD.. MWE BANTU PREEZ CORPSES ARE MISSING AND WE DOING GOOD… MULANTEKUNYA.!!!

  5. NO.4. You tickled me with this” Legal Expert Malukula ran out of t-bone steak to braai and decided human flesh would be a better option”

  6. This simply shows how irresponsible people at the maamba hospital are. How can they allow people in the mortuary and end up picking a wrong body. The hospital must have some security of some kind. The staff at the hospital must be responsible for once.

  7. i wonder if there was body viewing to those who may have mistakely buried the wrong body

  8. SUCH THINGS DO NOT HAPPEN IN SOCIETY.THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNOWS BETTER IS THE MALUKULA,IF HE DOES NOT SAY THE TRUTH HE SHOULD BE FIRED OR HANGED

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